The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Scotland) Order 2013

Submission of samples

14.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the keeper must, in accordance with paragraph (3), submit (or arrange to have submitted) any sample or samples taken under article 11 to an approved laboratory with whose operator arrangements have been made for testing in relation to BVDV.

(2) Where the keeper of the breeding herd elects to submit (or arrange to have submitted) the samples described in article 11(2)(a) and as a result of testing the first, second or third sample the approved laboratory determines the BVD finding as “not negative”—

(a) the keeper is not required to submit the remaining sample or samples for testing; and

(b) the date of that determination is taken to be the date of compliance with article 9(1).

(3) A sample must be—

(a) submitted in accordance with such requirements as to storage, handling and timing as are indicated to be necessary for the effective testing of the sample by the operator of the laboratory to which the sample is to be submitted or, as the case may be, the instructions accompanying the equipment used to take the sample; and

(b) accompanied by a notice containing the following information—

(i) the keeper’s name and address;

(ii) by reference to the relevant provision of article 11, the description of the sample;

(iii) the date the sample was taken;

(iv) the CPH number for the holding on which the herd or animal was kept at the time the sample was taken;

(v) in the case of a sample described in article 11(2)(d), (e) or (f), the ear tag numbers from ear tags applied under the 2007 Regulations to all animals from which the sample derives;

(vi) in the case of a sample described in article 11(6)(a), the ear tag numbers from ear tags applied to the animal under the 2007 Regulations; and

(vii) any other information reasonably requested by the operator of the laboratory.